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La trilogia del sesso errante

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David
Written in Romanian by Cristina Vremes
9 minutes read

Nočem biti pes

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
7 minutes read

Platýs

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Iverak

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Honingeter)

Sibel wacht in de luchthaven van Istanboel. Elke dag opnieuw mist ze haar vlucht naar Brussel. Ze voelt zich in de beide landen niet thuis, wil grip krijgen op de herinneringen aan haar overleden vader en haar taal herontdekken. Sibel vult de dagen met het observeren van andere passagiers en de zorg voor een speurhond. Maar zelf wordt ze ook geobserveerd. Bewakingsagent Ömer houdt haar via zijn schermen in da gaten en beslist haar te beschermen, zoals een vader. En dan is er nog Wernicke, een piloot die niet alleen zijn job verloor, maar nu ook zijn taal en gezondheid. Alle drie leven ze illegaal in de luchthaven, met hun eigen bagage en communicatieproblemen. Een sneeuwstorm verlengt hun ongemakkelijke samenzijn, maar een afscheid is onafwendbaar. Erkan omschrijft gevoelig hoe het is om tussen twee culturen op te groeien. Honingeter maakt bevattelijk hoe onmogelijk het is de ander echt te begrijpen en om je ergens thuis te voelen als je je moedertaal niet kunt spreken. Met poëtische metaforen toont Erkan de kwetsbaarheid van haar personages. Tülin Erkan (1988) groeide op in Oostende bij een Franstalige moeder en een Engelstalige grootmoeder. Haar zomers bracht ze door bij haar vader in Turkije. Wanneer mensen haar als half omschrijven, voelt ze zich vooral dubbel. In haar debuut Honingeter rijgt ze taal en herinnering virtuoos aan elkaar tot een gecondenseerd geheel.
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Oh, ragazze (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Barbara Pavetto
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
8 minutes read

Toate fiarele de pe câmp

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Ik was het nooit, Maar ben het nu wel. Gevoelig voor elke Weersverandering.

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
11 minutes read

E dieci dita più in là

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen
9 minutes read

Uy, nenas (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
9 minutes read

Măi, fetelor (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

There are few places across Europe which have had the tumultuous story of Moldova in the 20th and 21st centuries. My greatgrandmother, for instance, spent most of her life in the same village while living in four different countries: she was born in the Russian Empire, went to school in Romania, resisted collectivisation and eventually gave in during the Soviet era, and got retired in the independent Republic of Moldova. I share her story in this book, as well as stories of other people with different backgrounds I interviewed, in an effort to create a polyphonic view of Moldova’s recent history. Chronologically, the book starts with the 1903 infamous Chisinau pogrom and it ends with the 2022 refugee crisis caused by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Geographically, the stories are rooted in Moldova but they cover the whole world thanks to the processes of migration that characterised all of the communities described in this book — Jewish, Roma, Armenian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Russian etc. — at different points during history.
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
7 minutes read

Uma bomba a iluminar a noite do Marão

Translated from Portugese to Polish by Gabriel Borowski
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
7 minutes read

Pronájem

Translated from Portugese to Czech by Štěpánka Huláková
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
7 minutes read

Bestias todas del campo

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
9 minutes read

Cátedra o cómo hacer nata montada

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Irene de la Torre
Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen
8 minutes read

Elogio dell’uragano

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Hvalnica orkanu

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
3 minutes read

Nisem bila, vendar zdaj sem. Občutljiva na vsako spremembo vremena.

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
8 minutes read

Хей, момичета (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Bulgarian by Valentina Zlateva
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
7 minutes read
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